Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25:22PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:22:45PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> >> >> It have come to my attention that a patch has been committed to the >> >> kernel with the explicit purpose of tainting ndiswrapper - the kernel >> >> module allowing Windows NDIS drivers for Ethernet and Wireless cards to >> >> be used by the kernel. >> >>... >> >> Just to reiterate some points from the old discussion: >> >>... >> >> - no copyright violation is involved, as Windows drivers are not derived >> >> from Linux sources >> >>... >> > >> > It is interesting that someone posting with an @gnu.org address claims >> > that dynamic linking of not GPLv2 compatible code into GPLv2 code was >> > not a copyright violation. >> >> As long as you don't distribute /proc/kcore, I can't see how the GPL >> would have any say in the matter. The Windows drivers are (unrelated >> violations aside) clearly not derived from GPL code. > > Someone might sell a laptop with Linux installed?
Not a problem, unless it is booted when sold. Even that might not be a problem, since it would be a matter of transferring ownership of a single copy, not creating and distributing new copies, and the GPL does is only concerned with the latter. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
